We hear two of the rare Broadway musicals that qualify as "operatic":
Leonard Bernstein’s Candide and Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy
Fella.
“Operatic” Musicals
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Playlist:
1:00 pm
- Die Meistersinger: Prelude (excerpt)
- Composer: Richard Wagner
- Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Fritz Reiner
- CD/Album: Reiner Conducts Wagner
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 4738
- Release Year: 1983
1:01 pm
- Mignon: "Connais-tu le pays?"
- Composer: Ambroise Thomas
- Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Soloists: Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
- Conductor: John Pritchard
- CD/Album: French Opera Arias
- Record co./Cat #: Columbia M-34206 [vinyl]
- Release Year: 1976
1:12 pm
- Candide
- Composer: Leonard Bernstein
- Ensemble: Original Broadway Cast
- Soloists: Barbara Cook ; Robert Rounseville ; Max Adrian ; Irra Petina ; William Olvis ; William Chapman
- Conductor: Samuel Krachmalnick
- CD/Album: Candide
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 48017
- Release Year: 1957
2:11 pm
- The Most Happy Fella: Act I
- Composer: Frank Loesser
- Ensemble: Original Broadway Cast
- Soloists: Robert Weede ; Jo Sullivan ; Art Lund ; Susan Johnson ; Shorty Long ; Mona Paulee
- Conductor: Herbert Greene
- CD/Album: The Most Happy Fella
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 48010
- Release Year: 1956
3:16 pm
- The Most Happy Fella: Act II
- Composer: Frank Loesser
- Ensemble: Original Broadway Cast
- Soloists: Robert Weede ; Jo Sullivan ; Art Lund ; Susan Johnson ; Shorty Long ; Mona Paulee
- Conductor: Herbert Greene
- CD/Album: The Most Happy Fella
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 48010
- Release Year: 1956
4:08 pm
- The Most Happy Fella: Act III
- Composer: Frank Loesser
- Ensemble: Original Broadway Cast
- Soloists: Robert Weede ; Jo Sullivan ; Art Lund ; Susan Johnson ; Shorty Long ; Mona Paulee
- Conductor: Herbert Greene
- CD/Album: The Most Happy Fella
- Record co./Cat #: Sony 48010
- Release Year: 1956
4:37 pm
- Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
- Composer: Gustav Mahler
- Ensemble: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- Soloists: Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
- Conductor: Yoel Levi
- CD/Album: Mahler: Symphony No. 4 - Songs of a Wayfarer
- Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80499
- Release Year: 1999
4:55 pm
- Die Meistersinger: Prelude (excerpt)
- Composer: Richard Wagner
- Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Fritz Reiner
- CD/Album: Reiner Conducts Wagner
- Record co./Cat #: RCA 4738
- Release Year: 1983